Convert XPS To PDF File For Free
XPS File, as you know is XML Paper Specification from Microsoft build for Windows platform. I’ve already mentioned on how to open XPS file on your browser using free addons and for those of you who wants to convert XPS to PDF file format can look into this method.
Note that there are tons of services available that helps you to convert xps file to pdf format and they charge few bucks. With this method, you don’t have to pay anything online or buy a software or apps just to convert this sleazy Microsoft format.
The best part is, once the file is converted, you can view it as a PDF or again convert the PDF file into .Doc format, that is, If you want your XPS file in the .doc format. So, let’s begin:
How Do We Convert A XPS File?
Firstly, we will download a virtual printer, a free one for now, and use this freeware to make a virtual PDF file out of our XPS file. This method is pretty much straight forward and easy to implement for extracting the PDF form from the XPS file.
Convert XPS to PDF Format
Here is a simple step by step instructions on how you to achieve conversion:
Open XPS file – Firstly, open your XPS file from Microsoft application addon (download) or using XPS addons for Firefox, or with the Internet explorer browser (download)
Free Virtual printer – As we are in need of a virtual printer, you can download a freeware printer called Cute PDF which is another popular printing tool for Windows user. And yeah, if you have any virtual printer already installed, then go ahead and try it out;You can use any of the tool as it is a matter of personal choice.
Converting XPS to PDF – Now open the .XPS file and go to File and Print, select Cute PDF from printers list and click on Print. When you do this, you will be automatically requested to save the file on to your desktop in a .PDF file extension.
You can again convert PDF to DOC form by using Google docs or other free online service. That’s about it! We finally have a solution to convert XPS into PDF file without having to sweat our guts out!
Written by Sidharth on June 29th, 2009
Self-proclaimed geek, editor of blogote, who loves all things tech.
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You save my day! One freeware use TLK file extension. I was able to make XPS file but local library support only PDF and now I could print it.
Yes, I suppouse to buy a printer…
Nice Job, Thank you so much
My problem is I can’t even open the XPS files, even though I have XPSViewer program
Fantastic. Super easy. Thanks!
Nice work. you saved my day not fiddling round with this too long. Thanks.
It doesn’t work for me. I converted a DjVu-format to XPS.
I could format a few pages from XPS to PDF but the first attempt it only converted 9 pages (out of a bit over 1000 pages), the second time 6 out of 50.
Too bad.
how do you use google docs to change a xps file to pdf/jpg or anything else? lol
Thank you so much for this great tip! Worked perfectly
if you don’t want the hassle of pre-installation software, required with cutePDF then use BillZip instead.
This worked fantastically well, and when the pop up box asked if I wanted to install the ask.com thing I just unticked it. EASY!!!
is this fake?
I read all the comments posted and saw most of them were praising this product – the PDF Creator – as the solution to a problem. It seems I had a similar problem, so I was looking for a program just like this one! After all the good marks it received, I was eager to install and get started.
And I did get started all right …. in fact, the program seems to come with a free gift. This gift was in addition to the add-on forcing the installer to download the useless and unwanted Ask.com toolbar!
Yep! – A free gift – ‘cept this gift comes with a warning label from my anti-virus software warning me that a threat named W32.CLAM.2010.09.01 had been detected.
Of course, installation was stopped, any remnants from the installation files were deleted, and my computer received its Saturday night bath a bit earlier in the week than usual.
People just have to be careful when using free software. The “bargain” just may come with an expensive wake-up call!
Thnx 4 t informtion… useful one!!!
Dear Sid, God bless you son, for that ideas you provide. You just done my day better to sustain alive and well clear-minded. Thank’s!
Good Job Sid, I am using it on Windows 7 and it’s working smooth.
Thanx a lott
Installed this on Vista Ultimate (64-bit) it works great.
Just so you know, this program also has an ask.com toolbar in it that it tries to install, so just beware.
Great posting… great way of converting xps to pdf file.
THANKS!!!
Keep up the good work Sid !!!
Thanks for posting these type of articles
Muchas gracias por su ayuda.Excelente consejo. Me ha funcionado a la perfección, inmediatamente, sin problemas.
Saved a lot of my time. works great thanks!
Thanks. I really look forward to finding how to convert XPS to PDF without watermarks for free.
I try with the same method but for XPS Viewer I use XPS Annotator.
Thanks so much. Works perfect and I’m using XP
Worked great, thanks. Even posted it to kindle to view on the run. Great product…
Thank you it worked awesome!!!
Better was to convert to PDF is to use XpsConvert from Pagemark.
Also support most raster formats.
gxps does not support all image formats that can be contain within a xps document.
Works great. Thanks for the tip.
gxps(part of GhostPDL ) can Convert XPS documents to PDF format like this:
gxps -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=test.pdf -dNOPAUSE test.xps
Nonsense Does Not work. what happens if you are using windows XP ? – XP simply will not open the file to print – try posting a solution that works for XP users ! . This does not work for xp users as stated ! please try again !